Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1881 — Obtained What He Wanted. [ARTICLE]

Obtained What He Wanted.

The Philadelphia Times contains an account of a young man employed in a large iron manufacturing house in that city, who became dissatisfied with’ the wages he was getting —(this alone gives the story a fisliy look) —and he went to his employers and told them frankly that he would like more pay. Some young men, if they had wanted more pay, would have died sooner than let it be known, but this young duck didn’t seem to care for anything. So he told them he must have more currency, and they said they would raise him from S6O a month to $75. He was a shipping clerk, and had few equals as an artist with a camel’s hair brush and a pot of lamp-black. He could not, therefore, accept $75 a month, and he told them so. Then they humbled themselves before him and asked him what he would take to say nothing .more about it. The shipping clerk said he wanted a partnership interest, having read of such things probably in a novel. As soon as the members of the firm could recover from their astonishment, they promptly kicked him out. All this occurred eight years ago. “ To-day,” says the Times, “he is the leading member of a firm which employs nearly three thousand men and boys, turns out fifty thousand tons of iron a year, pays out over a hundred dollars a month in wages and salaries, and does a business of $4,000,000 a year.” And we suppose if any one of those three thousand men and boys should go into his office and ask for a partnership interest in the concern they would get it, would they? Or would he stand them on a spring-board and fire them through the roof ?— Peck's Sun.